OSHA Inspection: TRIAD CREATIVE GROUP, INC.

Issued

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-10-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2897.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i): Respirator users were not provided with the information contained in Appendix D to 29 CFR 1910.134 when the employer determined that any voluntary respirator use was permissible:    (a)  Employees were provided and allowed to use a half face elastomeric respirator.  Employees were not trained on respirator usage, limitations, and maintenance as contained in Appendix D.

Issued

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-10-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(ii): The employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily was medically able to use that respirator, and that the respirator was cleaned, stored, and maintained so that its use does not present a health hazard to the user:      (a) The employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written respirator program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily was medically able to use that respirator.  The Graphics Department employee was not medically evaluated prior to respirator usage.      (b) The employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written program necessary to ensure that the respirator was cleaned, stored, and maintained so that it's use does not present a health hazard to the user.  The respirator used by the Graphics Department employee was stored unprotected on a shelf in a walk-in custodial supply closet exposing it to possible chemical contamination.

Issued

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-11-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $2300.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5): The employer did not ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace was labeled, tagged, or marked with the identity and appropriate hazard warnings regarding the chemicals contained therein:    (a) Squirt bottles containing glues and solvents, such as naphtha and acetone, used by employees in the main work area and in the sign department were not properly labeled.  Missing from the container labeling were pictograms and hazard warnings that would inform employees of hazards such as flammability.

Issued

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-10-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area:   (a) Employees were not trained on the use of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Chemical Classification and the associated pictograms, signal words and other warnings found on labels and Safety Data Sheets (SDS) to inform employees of chemical hazards. Bottles containing glues and solvents, such as naphtha and acetone, used by employees in the main work area and in the sign department were not properly labeled.  Missing from the container labeling were pictograms and hazard warnings that would inform employees of hazards such as flammability.